i'm sitting here rattling off cities: venice, provence, budapest, oslo, geneva, london, dublin, paris, milan, barcelona, lisbon. trying to pick one. or a couple. just some place we can go to get away and have a vacation. it may not seem like i do much, but lord, i need it. i need a nice break that's longer than two or three days spent mostly in my ( Read more... )

so i'm listening to the new rilo kiley, drinking a gin & sprite. i feel like i belong in san diego, california circa nineteen seventy-two. it's very seventies "rock"/ "soul". i hear some dusty springfield, especially in "15"; just barely better than disco but not quite queen or devo status. it's alright. and the new cartel? it's got this ( Read more... )

i have had the best weekend ever. well, as best as can be, considering corey's off in the field. he told me not to get my hopes up, but he might be coming home tomorrow, instead of two weeks from then! downside? he'd then probably be gone for a month, starting in the middle of august. i came to the conclusion, however, that would be better. for the ( Read more... )

i am getting really sick of having the only person here i care about being taken from me. i'm getting really sick of not being able to trust my gut instincts anymore. i'm getting really sick of being entirely alone. i'm getting really sick of being so depressed and so hopeless and so lost.

i've got serious issues.

post script: i want, nay, NEED one of these:


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i kind of sort of have a job. i have to get a whole big background check and all this shit done but then i should be working at the child development center [cdc]. ehh, whatever. it's a job. and as brooke agrees: i'll only be stuck there for a year before we move to wiesbaden. a year in which i imagine i'll see VERY little of corey -- he's got so ( Read more... )

LOST is one of the most brilliant shows written. it may not be an entirely unique plot, but it has a lot of literary value and importance; this is the age of technology, after all.. though i wish i knew what happened this season, i'm just thankful it's on afn ( Read more... )

i am obsessed with the weather we've had the last two days. for those of you not in europe, it's been a fairly icky spring thus far. we got a couple nice weeks in mid-march, it was overcast and ugly for april and most of may, and now it's gorgeous. it stays light here until ten or so. it's nine twelve and it's barely dusk. it's amazing. the ( Read more... )

how do i do it? how do i fall apart so fast?

for the record, i am an amazing chef/baker. i just made raspberry-white chocolate scones from scratch. and let me tell you, they are absolutely fantastic.

a french press + fresh pasteries + spring sunshine = a glorious saturday morning.